Emily Henry’s Beach Read is a romance novel that’s light on the romance, and also on beaches and reading. But it’s still fun! An a good argument against aggressively...

Garfield creator Jim Davis decided to turn his PAWS, Inc. artists loose on multiple interpretations of our favorite orange feline. Behold, a truly absurd collection of tails — I...

Caw caw! Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a New Age messiah.Or is it? All we know is that this seagull loves to fly and craves perfection — which is somehow...

This podcast is about to REAL! In that we are about to talk about Realism and Naturalism, two things we definitely have an amazing handle on. And did Émile...

Nora Ephron is known mainly for her films, but her voice comes through loud and clear in Heartburn, a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel about love and divorce and how much...

You find yourself facing a cherry tree. Is it on the level? Is it secretly plotting revenge against the President? Make a choice and dive into this revolutionary tale....

To celebrate Bloomsday (however inadvertently), we decided to make our first foray in the work of James Joyce. His debut novel riffs on themes and characters that feature prominently...

Sometimes you read a book from 1940 and you get a little upset about how relevant its characters and themes remain more than 80 years later. Sometimes! McCullers’ debut...

Often grouped with the other plays in García Lorca’s unfinished “rural trilogy,” The House of Bernarda Alba is a claustrophobic drama about control, conformity, and one mother’s intimidating cane....